This mod will add dungeons meant to resemble levels from retro "2 1/2d" fisrt-person shooters and rpgs, and was inspired by earlier dungeons mods and by Oblige (especially version 3.57), a random level generator for Doom. The goal is to create interesting, tactically challenging, and highly varied multi-room dungeons that are fun to explore and rewarding to conquer.

Version 1.9 of the mod is out. It add a new theming / config file for creating custom NBT tag that can be added to loot items -- this also means potions are back (but you will need to update chests.cfg to use the new NBT based system). Also, the mod will now throw its own custom Forge events, thanks to Charles "frodare" Howard who added this feature.

I have back ported the latest version to Minecraft 1.7.10 (which is the most popular game version for this, based on downloads); I probably won't be back porting to any other versions, since few people actually download those.

This is now ... undead...?Yeah, I've been updating the "dead" mod on Curse. I suppose its not really dead and a better project than the other ideas I had. Who knows, maybe I'll even add a few more options some times?

Installation:

First, make sure you have the correct version of MinecraftForge installed.

Download the mod jar and place it in your mods folder, just like a typical Forge mod.

If you're having trouble with Dungeons spawning in recent version but not older ones consider check the theme files to make sure they start with "version 1.7" and that no field names have colons at the end (if so delete them). I think this will fix that problem.

Config File

FrequencyScale: How common the dungeons are, with each increase of one making them half as common (so be careful). The default is now seven. This basically determines the average distaance between dungeons, so remember a higher number mean fewer dungeons.

MinChunkXY: No dungeons will spawn within this many chunks of spawn. Note that this applies to where the center of the dungeon is, not to its edge.

Difficulty: How hard the dungeons should be; this will effect the frequency and difficulty of mobs spawners.

NeverInBiomeTypes: List any biome types you don't want dungeons to ever spawn in; default list consists only of "END" but any valid biome dictionary type will do. These must be types from the Forge biome dictionary, using the names of actual biomes will not work!

ExportLists: False by default; if set to true three list (mobs,txt, items.txt, and blocks.txt) will be exported to config/DLDungeonsThemes/Lists. These are lists for mod-pack makers and other to get lists of usable content for themes with IDs / correct names.

Dimensions: This list dimension, one per line by dimension ID (not the name, it must be a number) - whether or not they actually can depend on how that dimension handles world gen. The meaning of this is determined by the OnlySpawnInListedDims; if that is true it allows dungeons in the dimensions listed here, if that is false it blocks them from spawning in these dimensions. Put differently this may be either a list of allowed dimensions of a list of banned dimension.

ObeyFeatureSpawningRule: If set to true (default) the mod will only generate dungeons if the world is set to spawn structures. If there will be dungeons regardless.

OnlySpawnInListedDims: If true (default) dungeons will only spawn in dimension listed in the Dimensions tag (above) and not in any other; these are allowed dimensions. If set to false this is reversed so dungeons will spawn in dimensions not listed and never in those that are (should help with Mystcraft compatibility); these are now banned dimension (any others are good).

SpawnWithWordgen: If set to false no dungeons will be created with world-gen, and will only exist if created using the /dldspawn command.

AnnounceCommands: If true, confirmation for commands will be sent to chat..

StingyWithLoot: If you think the chest are too generous, this will make them stingy!

EasyFind: If true, all dungeons that can normally have an entrance will have at least one and all entrances will have a building or ruin around them.

InstallThemes: Defaults to true. If set to false the themes folder can remain empty, though I don't know why you'd want that!

InstallThemesByCommand: Defaults to true. If set to false the /dldInstallThemes and /dldForceInstallThemes commands won't work. Intended as a safety / security feature.

AutoProfilingOn: May do nothing (usually) or write tons of stuff to the console (laggy), depending on what I have set up to profile. This should be kept turned off (leave it alone).

BuildPole: Should not be used except for testing; it places a quart pillar from y=5 to y=250 through the technical centre of the dungeon and frames it with a flying lapis square marking the boundaries. Usually I'd call this cheating.

DisableApiCalls: If set to true other mods cannot alters setting or themes / mob through the API (default is false).

DontAllowApiOnMobs: If set to true other mods cannot add or remove mobs from themes (defaults to false), even if API calls are allowed. This can be accomplished per-theme by not assigning a theme type.

Themes

Themes allow you and easy way to mod the mod easily, changing blocks and mobs. You can have as many or as few themes as you like, and control the biome types they appear in. Also, if dungeons won't appear with newer versions, try re-installing themes.

Commands

/dldspawn will force a dungeon to spawn with its technical center (might not be the geometric center) in the chunk of the player who uses it. Dungeons created in this way do not use the world seed (naturally spawning dungeons do). For obvious reasons, this should not usually be used in chunks where players have been building, mining, or otherwise changing the map (especially underground); the dungeon will over-write anything in its way.(A more advanced command may come later, but a lot of other things would need to be done first for it to work.)

/dldreload will reload the config file at run-time and from in game. This effective reverses any API based config changes.

/dlddimid will show the player's current dimension. Good if using with Multiverse (etc.) in a Cauldron (MCPC+) server.

/dldInstallThemes will (re)install and default themes that are missing. It will not overwriting any themes that exist.

/dldForceInstalThemes will (re)install the default themes, overwriting any existing themes with the same name.

Does it use the Forge Biome Dictionary? I see in config files different biome categories like "WATER", "MOUNTAINS", "HILLS"... Does it mean that dungeons will spawn in all the Biomes O Plenty biomes grouped into those categories?

I'm testing it right now. Good mod by the way, the more dungeons, the better.

Does it use the Forge Biome Dictionary? I see in config files different biome categories like "WATER", "MOUNTAINS", "HILLS"... Does it mean that dungeons will spawn in all the Biomes O Plenty biomes grouped into those categories?

I'm testing it right now. Good mod by the way, the more dungeons, the better.

Yes, it does, so that should work -- though it only considers the biome at the center of the dungeon., so it may run under tje eddge of another biome.

There was a I time, months ago, when I considered a "Dimension of Doom" mod that would have had a whole under-nether dimension with such mobs, dungeons, blocks, items, etc., but that would probably have been too much for a first mod.

Now I feel like Doom based mobs would be redundant because Lycanite has already created many of them and done a very good job of it. Maybe sometime I'll create an alternate Demon Mobs theme that puts the Nether mobs in a kind of base in the Overworld. At this point I mostly want to create adventuring settings resembling the tactical challenges found in Doom and Hexen.

In the mean time I'm seeing if there's anything useful I can do to help AnonymousProductions revive MineFantasy, thinking of an idea for a magic mod, and concerned with customizable chests (which I thought would be really easy but has some stumbling blocks I didn't expect).

Loved it dude! Normally this is where I would suggest improvements but I can't think of any

Thanks for the great review. BTW, Lycanite's config do more than add his mobs, they also increase the difficulty setting for the dungeons from 3 / "hurt me plenty" to 4 / "Ultraviolence" (this means that you can even find Wither spawners).

I've thought of making a small mod pack with my mod, the Lycanite's demon mobs, and a guns mod, for those who really want to play doom in Minecraft.

Hopefully that will involve configurable chests (last thing I need for mod pack support stuff) and fences in outdoor rooms (found in the nether, for now). That and maybe look into an occational problem on starting new worlds -- may just be lag from all the world gen when there are lots of dungeons, but want to make sure that's all it is.

New version, 1.0.1, is out, and is a small change; fences, which have always been in themes, are now actually used in outdoor rooms. Of course, out door rooms are only found in the nether by default. Done for now.

New version, 1.0.1, is out, and is a small change; fences, which have always been in themes, are now actually used in outdoor rooms. Of course, out door rooms are only found in the nether by default. Done for now.

Configurable chests and outputting of mob, item, and block lists to text files seem to be working in a private test version (with 1.6.4). There will probably be a new version as soon as I can port everything to 1.5.2 and 1.7.2. There is one little problem though with the use of mobs from some mods (though it should not effect most)...

...in an earlier versions it would not load Lycanites mobs correctly because I did something stupid myself; but now I'm sure it could not add Twilight Forest mobs because Benematic did something I see as stupid (white space in the "unlocalized" code names, bad, bad, bad!). I've not tested that but there's no way it could work. I'm not sure whether or not to re-write the theme reader to compensate for such things, but I guess I will (not in the next update though).

First off this is an awesome mod! Thanks for all your hard work on it!

Now to the problem... I want the Nether theme to be the only theme in the Nether. The problem is I use BOP nether biomes which also include other biome dictionary types. So I am getting random odd looking overworld themed dungeons in the nether.

Is there a way to have dimension selection per theme or have "not biome" or something such that I can fix this.

First off this is an awesome mod! Thanks for all your hard work on it!

Now to the problem... I want the Nether theme to be the only theme in the Nether. The problem is I use BOP nether biomes which also include other biome dictionary types. So I am getting random odd looking overworld themed dungeons in the nether.

Is there a way to have dimension selection per theme or have "not biome" or something such that I can fix this.

I've been thinking of having the ability to forbid biome types, don't know if that would help since I don't use BoP. Having required or forbidden dimension might be slightly trickier but I could see about it. I'd already been thinking of ways to allowing themes specific to modded dimensions (when the overworld themes just wouldn't work).